In the wake of a terrible study out of the University of Pennsylvania, Morning Consult‘s Mariam Baksh reached out to our own broadband expert Christopher Mitchell to deal with the fallout and critiques.… Read More
Strewn in streets and alleys. Dumped in a landfill. Burned in an incinerator and, ultimately, inhaled by residents.
About 20% of Baltimore’s residential trash is recycled. That’s extremely low compared to the 35% national average for cities. Some jurisdictions have achieved 50% and 60%. West Coast cities including Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles have reached even higher levels.
In Charm City, what doesn’t get recycled ends up in some not-too-charming places, including the aging Wheelabrator Baltimore waste-to-energy incinerator, locally known as BRESCO.
But a decision point is looming: the city’s contract to send trash to BRESCO is set to expire in four years. Continuing to use the incinerator means expanding the Quarantine Road Landfill, which is approaching capacity and accepts the incinerator’s ash, as well as residents’ solid waste.… Read More
From Colin Wood’s StateScoop piece: “Research published last week by a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School casts major doubt on the economic viability of municipally-run fiber networks. Several industry experts, however, say the methodology used in the research generated misleading results.” Check out our broadband expert Christopher Mitchell’s contributions.… Read More
In this article in StateScoop editor Colin Wood reached out to ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell to discuss the lack of broadband availability in North Carolina and the digital divide between rural and urban areas.… Read More
Grid modernization is a useful tool for monopoly utilities to justify massive spending on stranded assets that ratepayers will have to pay for. For this piece for Midwest Energy News reporter Frank Jossi quotes ILSR’s research on energy.… Read More
In this article for Baltimore Brew chief editor Fern Shen interviewed ILSR co-founder and Waste to Wealth researcher Neil Seldman on the change in the city of Baltimore’s solid waste plan to incorporate more recycling into the community’s economy.… Read More
ILSR is featured in this story on Amazon from the New Hampshire Business Journal.… Read More
Check out this story from Maryland’s Frederick News Post: “Frederick County isn’t wasting time waiting to talk about trash. A group of concerned citizens have set up an event to gather local leaders, farmers and residents in one room to discuss better ways to deal with food waste in the county’s waste stream.”… Read More
In The Nation, cooperative model researcher Nathan Schneider details the economic development potential of cooperatives for furthering issues like renewable energy and broadband Internet access. In his piece he quotes our research at Institute for Local Self-Reliance.… Read More
